"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes"
The Pop in Pop
Art is short for
popular.
Born as Andrew Warhola, Andy Warhol, is one
of the most recognizable Pop Artists of the
1960s to the 1980s.
His most well known pieces of art work
include his paintings of Campbell Soup, a
meal which his mother prepared for him
almost every day of his life.
Andy was stricken
with a neurological
disorder when he was
a young boy, so to
escape the problems
he had with his
health, he read DC
Comic books and
Celebrity Magazines.
This would be a huge
influence on his art
later in life.
Warhol started his
career out as a
fashion illustrator,
mostly drawing
shoes, for many
famous magazines.
It was not until he began to paint objects he
found in the most ordinary of places, such as at
grocery stores, that his work began to take off.
Pop Art
Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement
that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer
boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of
pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and the Beatles. Pop
Art was brash, young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment.
It included different styles of painting and sculpture from various
countries, but what they all had in common was an interest in massmedia, mass-production and mass-culture.
A feminist author tried to
murder Andy Warhol in
1968. It was a nearly fatal
gunshot wound, but
Warhol survived. This
incident only made
Warhol more paranoid
and distant from the
friends, but did not slow
down is production of art
at his studio called “The
Factory.”
The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is
US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled "Silver Car
Crash (Double Disaster)".
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2013/dec/17/alan-cumming-on-pop-artvideo